CRYPTO SHRUGGED (Bitpats book 1)

Cryptocurrency is changing the world. Banks and governments want to control and regulate it; libertarians and anarchistic techies, like Wyatt Osgood, want to keep it free and decentralized. They have to deal with the efforts of nations, criminal enterprises, and supra-national organizations who want to use the development of new cryptocurrencies to further their own agendas.

It’s a new world, but not a very brave one. A battle is raging and perhaps only a new breed of hobos, calling themselves Bitpats, even know that war has been declared.

WHO OWNS YOU? (Short Story)

When the CIA sends a financial analyst named Tyler Blake to go undercover at the Anarchapulco conference in Mexico, the idea is to have eyes and ears on anarchist plots. Somehow things don’t go as planned. Despite good intentions, ideas of freedom might just be too contagious to resist.

INVISIBLE FORTUNE (Short Story)

Tropical heat, money, and lust

Henry Miller once said, "One's destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things." I think that’s why, on an extended vacation from my programming job to Cartagena, Colombia, I let a rich and chatty American expat tell me his story. I wasn’t impressed or even particularly interested—not until I met his beautiful assistant and heard rumors that the man had a dark secret. Even then I became intrigued mostly, I suspect, because learning the truth was a way to get to know her.

This is modern fiction, a story of high-tech vigilante justice. It was inspired by a steamy tropical atmosphere, cold drinks, and lithe, sweaty bodies. It’s the story of how, ultimately, the temptation to deliver justice and satisfy my own desires (to possess both the tangible and intangible) overcame common sense and perhaps whatever common decency I once had.

But then, betrayal for a worthy cause can taste mighty sweet even if its never quite clear, at the end, who seduced whom you can still have a happy ending.

J. LEE PORTER

J. Lee Porter is a former IT specialist, programmer and data analyst for banking, security, and government agencies. He left the IT world behind on July 4th, 2016, declaring it his personal independence day to travel the world full time in search of inspiration for his writing.

Ed teja

Ed Teja is a writer a poet, a musician and boat bum. He writes about the places he knows, and the people who live in the margins of the world. After being friends with tech giants, pirates, fisherman, and a coterie of strange people for many years, he finds the world an amazing place filled with intriguing, if sometimes crazed characters.